Strengthened Code News Today

X, formerly known as Twitter, withdrew from the Code this year, provoking a strong reaction from the European Commission.

The Internet just changed forever, but most people living in the United States don’t even realize what just happened.  A draconian new law known as the “Digital Services Act” went into effect in the European Union on Friday, and it establishes an extremely strict regime of Internet censorship that is far more authoritarian than anything we have ever seen before. 

Online platforms should resist binding us all to the rules of censorship-happy jurisdictions.

Disinformation is a “threat” to young people because of youth’s “reliability” on the internet. That is the view of Dr. Stephanie Daher, a researcher at the European Foundation for Democracy (EFD), a leading Brussels-based policy institute, where she is currently managing a project on disinformation. She says young people have emerged as the “main targets […]

The bloc’s revised code steps back from the fight at hand, directly capitulating to Silicon Valley platforms.